Oscar Directors: Cassavetes, John–Background, Career, Awards, Filmography

Faces was nominated for 3 Oscar Awards: Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress.

Oscar Directors: Wilder, Billy–Background, Career, Awards, Filmography

He directed 14 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity, Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend, William Holden in Sunset Boulevard and Stalag 17, Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard, Erich von Stroheim in Sunset Boulevard, Nancy Olson in Sunset Boulevard, Robert Strauss in Stalag 17, Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina, Charles Laughton in Witness for the Prosecution, Elsa Lanchester in Witness for the Prosecution, Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot and The Apartment, Jack Kruschen in The Apartment, Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment and Irma la Douce and Walter Matthau in The Fortune Cookie.

Oscar Directors: Schertzinger, Victor–Background, Career, Awards, Filmography

August 23, 2020 Victor Schertzinger Career Summary: Occupational Inheritance: Yes; musical parents Social Class: Nationality: of Dutch origins Education: Training: First Film: First Oscar Nomination: One Night of Love, 1934; age Other Nominations: No Genre (specialties): Musical films Collaborators: Last Film: The Fleet’s In, 1942, posthumously Contract: Career Output: Career Span: Marriage: Politics: Retirement: Death: […]

Oscar Directors: Tyldum, Morten–Background, Career, Awards, Filmography

August 23, 2020 Morten Tyldum Career Summary: Occupational Inheritance: Social Class: Nationality: Norway Education: Training: First Film: Buddy, 2003, 36 First Oscar Nomination: Imitation Game, 2014, 47 Other Nominations: No Genre (specialties): Collaborators: Last Film: Contract: Career Output: NA Career Span: 2003-present Marriage: wife committed suicide Politics: Retirement: NA Death: NA   Morten Tyldum (Norwegian: […]

Oscar Directors: Wyler, William–Background, Career, Awards, Filmography

Notable works include Mrs. Miniver (1942), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), and Ben-Hur (1959), all of which won him the Best Director and Best Picture, making him the only director of three Best Picture winners.